Search Results for “vision” – Embracing Followership

Leadership: Access, Not Vision

August 30, 2017September 28, 2017 by A.H., posted in reflections, study03, study05

If vision isn’t one of the distinctives of leadership, then what element separates out the leadership role from followership?

Inspiration: A Vision of the Possible

August 18, 2015August 24, 2016 by A.H., posted in inspiration

As I recount in the introduction to Embracing Followership, the journey of formulating and capturing my thoughts on followership launched in 2011, after reading a book entitled A Vision of the Possible. A brief comment by the author indicated that we have plenty of books on leadership, but that we really need a book on how … Continue reading Inspiration: A Vision of the Possible

Motivation for Followership

January 14, 2019 by A.H., posted in reflections, study02, study04, study05

What’s the fuel for your followership?

A Followership Definition of Servant Leadership?

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 by A.H., posted in reflections, study03, study12

Influencing? Bringing about compliance? Adopting others’ goals? Facilitating superior performance? Are these the core elements of the leadership-followership dynamic?

Enhancing Excellent Followership as a Distance Leader: Part 2 (clarity)

July 13, 2018 by A.H., posted in reflections, study10

How are you doing with leading via electronic communication?

Is your job easy? Do you want it to be?

April 19, 2018 by A.H., posted in reflections, study02, study04

Are you pursuing ease, when life-giving engagement is on offer?

New Free Resource: What would you do if someone gave you…?

March 5, 2018August 10, 2018 by A.H., posted in news, questions, reflections, resource, study02, study04, study05, study06

Are you clued into the depths of your own vision and passions? Are others aware of them? Are you aware of others’ interests and burdens?

Leadership is Relationship

September 28, 2017 by A.H., posted in reflections, study03, study07

For me, the answer to “what is leadership?” is fairly simple. Conveniently, I answer a similar question about followership in the same way.

Who are the Change Agents?

July 30, 2017July 30, 2017 by A.H., posted in reflections, study03, study07

If leaders are both the visionaries and the change agents, then what’s left for the followers to do?

Review of Leadership Goals

July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 by A.H., posted in reflections, study10, study12

Many people associate the leadership role with vision as a fundamental aspect. I am not a visionary, and so I brought my followership perspective instead.

Encouraging Ownership

April 12, 2017 by A.H., posted in reflections, study04, study05

While the number of leaders in any group are limited, the number of ‘owners’ of a project is not. Followers and leaders alike can exhibit profound ownership–regardless of where the idea originated from. But this ownership must be encouraged, must be facilitated, must be permitted by those involved.

Sheep & Sheepdogs

March 8, 2017April 1, 2017 by A.H., posted in analogies, study02, study07, study12

Given the option of being labeled a sheep or a sheepdog, which would you rather be? Being called a sheep is perhaps the most common negative image of followership–often intended to portray mindlessness, weakness, simplicity. Who wouldn’t rather be a powerful and productive sheepdog?

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